The Phenomenon of Spontaneous Recovery Suggests That

question 71

Multiple Choice

The phenomenon of spontaneous recovery suggests that

• A) classical conditioning can only be used to condition biologically meaningful responses.
• B) once a conditioned response has been extinguished, a person will also stop responding to other stimuli that are similar.
• C) extinction does not erase a learned association, it only suppresses or interferes with a conditioned response.
• D) when a conditioned response is extinguished, higher-order responses replace the original response.

Identify the relationship between personality traits and various psychological disorders as outlined in DSM-5.

Grasp the genetic components and inheritance patterns of personality disorders.

Understand the underlying psychological mechanisms of mood disorders.

Recognize the psychological and biological basis of anxiety disorders and their treatment.

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Definitions:

Totipotency

The ability of a cell to differentiate into any type of cell in an organism, including the extraembryonic or placental cells.

Genes

Genes are units of heredity made up of DNA, responsible for guiding the process of creating proteins that in turn, dictate cell function.

Differentiation

Development toward a more mature state; a process changing a young, relatively unspecialized cell to a more specialized cell. Also called cell differentiation.

Gene Activity

The process by which a gene's information is used to synthesize functional gene products, like proteins, influencing the cell's functions.